by Shannon Turner | Apr 3, 2025 | personal narrative, self-image, self-worth, Teapot project, transformative storytelling, vulnerability
But what happens if my job is only successful if I learn how to really F.A.A.F.O.? What I’m learning is…I don’t think I get any better at my storytelling, especially if I’m going to make a whole full-length show, if I can’t learn to play–really play, like I’m a little kid again–and let some things fail.
by Shannon Turner | Sep 11, 2024 | Blog, camp stories, personal narrative, Teapot project
It’s kind of like that joke about the the two young fish that run into the old fish, and the old fish says, Hey, boys, how’s the water? And the young fish say, What’s water? Storytelling was the water that was all around me.
by Shannon Turner | Apr 9, 2024 | authenticity, Blog, change, empathy, grief, memory, mental illness, nostalgia, personal is political, personal narrative, podcasting, self-image, self-worth, transformative storytelling, trauma, vulnerability, walks with grief
As I have slept on hospital recliners, created calendars for coordinating treatment transportation and meal drop-offs, and called on networks for everything from emotional support to equipment donations, one clarion call keeps echoing in my ear. We are not doing elderhood the right way around here. It is terrifying, isolating. It can break your back and your bank.
by Shannon Turner | Sep 27, 2023 | Blog, change, grief, manifesting stories, nostalgia, pandemic, personal narrative, podcasting, self-image, transformative storytelling, vulnerability, walks with grief
A few years ago, I started letting go of many films in my ritual because, as someone pointed out to me, I ostensibly wanted to bring change into my life and perhaps doing the same thing over and over again was not serving that purpose. And, hello, watching He’s Just Not That Into You on Valentine’s Day was perhaps not the most efficacious way to find my semi-permanent dance partner.
by Shannon Turner | Jul 13, 2022 | Blog, manifesting stories, personal narrative, self-image, transformative storytelling
There are some stories, and Shannon the Underdog Atlanta Online Dating Girl was one of them, that become a stuck/repeating tape loop. When I first moved to Atlanta in 2008, I threw myself headlong into the newly ubiquitous (read: now-not-so-skeevy) online dating...
by Shannon Turner | May 22, 2022 | #ShannonGoesToIreland, Blog, manifesting stories, personal narrative, walks with grief
People travel all the time. Maybe less so these days, but it’s just something that happens a lot, for personal and professional reasons. Can’t tell you how many times I see on dating profiles that a potential partner will judge you as unqualified if you don’t have enough passport stamps.